Japan on Wednesday approved its first national legislation banning smoking inside of public facilities, but the watered-down measure excludes many restaurants and bars and is seen as toothless.
Read moreCigar and pipe tobacco companies will not have to add health warning statements to their products on August 10, a federal judge has ruled.
Read moreA European advocate general on Wednesday recommended that the EU keep its prohibition on the sale of flavored tobacco and tobacco products, including the ban on labels that indicate what flavor they contain.
Read moreA woman whose parents burned to death in a nursing home fire claims in court that enforcement of the nonsmoking policy could have prevented the carnage.
Read moreAlcohol and tobacco use shaved more than a quarter of a billion years off our lives collectively in 2015 – and illicit drugs burned tens of millions more, according to a new study.
Read moreCigarette manufacturers must begin posting new warnings starting in June about the dangers of smoking on websites and product packaging, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Read moreS&M Brands, a Virginia-based tobacco firm, was the 11th Circuit to revive a lawsuit in which the company claims Georgia’s tobacco regulations are an unconstitutional restraint of trade.
Read moreBacking the EU-wide ban on the oral tobacco product snus, a magistrate with the European Court of Justice found Thursday scientific advancements over the years do not require any change.
Read moreMinnesota sued the $7 billion tobacco company that acquired the Kool, Winston, Salem and Maverick brands from the merger of R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard, claiming it is not making multimillion-dollar annual payments required by a settlement agreement.
Read moreTargeting one culprit in the panoply of noxious street odors, a Queens Democrat asked the New York City Council on Thursday to ban smoking while walking.
Read moreA video of an orangutan smoking has brought more criticism of a zoo in Indonesia infamous for past animal-welfare troubles.
Read moreAn Irish court should be allowed to protect one of its citizens from a judgment abroad of which the man did not receive prior notice, a magistrate with Europe’s highest court determined Thursday.
Read moreDutch anti-smoking activists vowed to fight on Thursday after prosecutors rejected their call for a criminal investigation into four major tobacco companies on charges including attempted murder or manslaughter, on the grounds that such a case would be unlikely to lead to a conviction.
Read moreTeenagers who have used non-cigarette tobacco products are twice as likely to try conventional cigarettes within a year as those who have not, a new study finds.
Read moreMore than 120 lawsuits were filed across the United States in 2017 by plaintiffs claiming they were hurt in explosions and fires caused by e-cigarette batteries.
Read moreNew research shows that some teens exposed to graphic anti-smoking posters may actually be encouraged to pick up the habit.
Read moreThe U.N.’s labor agency said Thursday that it will stop taking funding from the tobacco industry and will not extend its public-private partnerships with a business faulted for harmful health effects.
Read moreA federal judge ruled Monday that a group of health organizations cannot intervene in a lawsuit filed by tobacco companies against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over a rule expanding warning requirements to cigars and pipe tobacco.
Read moreMajor U.S. cigarette companies will start publishing a series of statements late next month that frankly describe the dangers of smoking.
Read moreAdding fuel to the adage “sitting is the new smoking,” a new study finds that sitting for extended periods of time is a significant risk factor for all causes of death.
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